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Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game .
2	As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go .
3	It was her left arm , however , so she was able to write out the application to my dictation , and I got someone else to type it .
4	I think we 'll send someone else to Tokyo .
5	This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless .
6	‘ Hear , hear , ’ they said uneasily , raising glasses , and Lydia began to coax everyone through to dinner .
7	We need somebody on to collect glasses .
8	Now somebody like to Dr somebody like to .
9	If there is no-one close to home to talk to , or if you want to talk to an independent person about your worries , you could telephone ChildLine or Barnardo 's .
10	Thus it involves massive amounts of reporting , in person or on paper , to keep everyone up to date :
11	More generally we will keep everyone up to date with progress on the programme through NOTES .
12	Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design .
13	leading one on to worship
14	That evening , having explained that the best place to enjoy a peach was in the bath , Adam fed one slowly to Miranda .
15	and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er
16	‘ Take everything down to Florence with you .
17	We do lots of function work , especially for new car launches , but the catering covers everything down to snacks and salads .
18	If he did not sell a property there was no charge , and at a time when other agents charged for everything down to advertisements in the papers , this was a popular and profitable revolution , which added to the image of ‘ man of the people ’ .
19	It really does bring everything down to earth .
20	I am already one down to Imran , having declared that Waqar did not have the action of a genuine fast bowler .
21	He pulled several wristwatches from his pocket and flung one down to Bill .
22	That 's what the Hereford fans must have thought , when they watched their side go one down to Northampton towards the end of the first half .
23	It must have been then , in a final flush of family feeling , that he made everything over to Nigel . ’
24	I 'll hand the first one over to Frank .
25	One of several in the district but the one nearest to Mouncy Street .
26	It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere .
27	She looked at Scott , something close to pity in her voice .
28	Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind .
29	The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic .
30	It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion .